Dear Dr. Sumana, Shiju and all others behind Wiki-Sukthi ( *विकिसूक्तिः*),
Wonderful achievement! We should celebrate this!! Many congratulations and keep it going. Best, Vishnu On 10 February 2013 11:55, Karthik Nadar <karthik...@wikimedia.in> wrote: > This is an awesome news. > > Congratulations to all behind this one, and wish you all a great success. > > On Sun, Feb 10, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Abhiram C <abhivasish...@gmail.com>wrote: > >> Hello Wikipedians, >> >> A new way to contribute to Samskrit is here!!!! The Samskrit Wikiquote is >> officially open for contributions. Thanks to all the people who have >> striven hard to make it count. >> >> The webpage can be found at *sa.wikiquote.org* <http://sa.wikiquote.org> >> >> ---------- Forwarded message ---------- >> From: Sumana <sumana.koundi...@gmail.com> >> >> Namaste, >> >> It is with immense pleasure, I wish to announce that Samskrit Wikiquote >> project ( *विकिसूक्तिः*) is out of Incubator and is available as an >> open source project like Wikipedia now. It was in a dormant stage with very >> limited editing options and visibility since its inception. >> >> We had started our efforts towards this in August 2012, persuading >> Wikipedia Language Committee. Over 7000 system messages were translated to >> samskrit, some 800 articles of useful content related to this project were >> created and uploaded, which were some of the requirements to approve new >> projects.Thanks to dedicated Wikipedians like Shiju Alex, that today we >> have the project out of incubator, which means, this project would be >> readily available for everyone to edit and use now on. >> >> The project is a store house of Subhashitas extracted from different >> scriptures like Veda, Upanishat Puraana, RamayaNa, Mahabharatam etc, >> categorised based on the topics with explanations. Also, it contains the >> idioms and phrases, witty puzzles, sayings of great people, Chitrakaavyam >> etc, everything in Samskrit. It is to be noted that all these, in a single >> webpage is not available anywhere else in such an easily available form. We >> have about 1260 pages under various categories, for a ready review at *sa. >> wikiquote.org* >> >> I request everyone to visit once for guidance, comments or >> contributions... >> >> Once again, Congratulations to one and all who have been instrumental in >> crossing this milestone... >> >> Thanks and Warm Regards, >> >> Dr Sumana >> Wikipedia Wing, Samskrita Bharati >> 98807 93423 >> >> >> -- >> Thanks & Regards, >> Abhiram C, >> Wikipedia <http://en.wikipedia.org> Editor, >> User: sbblr0803 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Sbblr0803> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikisa-l mailing list >> wikis...@lists.wikimedia.org >> https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikisa-l >> >> > > > -- > Thanks and regards, > Karthik Nadar, > Secretary, Wikimedia India Chapter. > > _______________________________________________ > Wikimediaindia-l mailing list > Wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > To unsubscribe from the list / change mailing preferences visit > https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimediaindia-l > >
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